Symphony Of Strings

She never sang. He noticed.

Bella Carter builds things that last: towers, foundations, walls no one can break through. Walls around her heart, too. Then her best friend drags her to a concert, and a stranger's voice gets through them in one song.

Lucien Vale is the dark, magnetic lead singer of Midnight Americans. Out of twenty thousand screaming fans, he finds the only one who stands silent. And he doesn't forget her.

The next morning, crimson roses arrive at her door. There's no name, only a card:

"You were the only one who didn't sing. I'll remember that."

Then come more notes. A car that follows her home. A photograph of Bella asleep, taken inside the one secret room no one should know exists.

Behind her bookshelf hangs a portrait of a woman who vanished twenty-two years ago. And a cold, charming man is paying Bella to tear down the last place that woman was ever seen.

Every clue leads back to Lucien, the man who saves her in the dark, watches her from the shadows and admits he has been following her.

Is he her protector? Or the one she should be running from?

Some secrets are buried. Some are painted over. And some are waiting beneath the heart of the house.

Some songs are written for one listener.